Today is Marathon Monday here in Boston, however it's not like past marathon mondays.
Today it's cold, and wet...and windy! I've been living in the area since 1994, and I don't recall ever having such bad weather on marathon monday!
The Boston Athletics Association, the organizers of the marathon, have arranged for busses to pick up marathon runners 'who just had too much' and don't want to continue running. While I think that there should be emergency crews on stand by, in case of medical emergency, I think it is counter to the spirit of the marathon to provide transportation to quitters. Running a marathon is no simple task, I would not be able to do it (at least in the shape I am in), but if I were to run that would imply that I put a lot of work into it, which means that neither rain, nor slow, nor sleet, nor ice, nor gale force winds would keep me from running/sprinting/jogging/power walking across that finish line. Don't be a quitter!

Just my 2 cents - good luck to all runners